Five Americans To Compete In Olympic Slopestyle Finals

Perhaps most impressively the two youngest members of the women's team - Lily Dhawornve and Jess Perlmutter - will compete in finals. Both are just 16 years old, and both fell on their first runs of Sunday's qualification round of slopestyle. They both needed to stomp their runs and score above a 68 to make it to the second day. They did just that.

Both the 16-year-olds burst onto the mainstream suddenly and ferociously in the past two years. Dhawornvej punched her ticket to the X Games after the streetstyle qualifier at Copper Mountain in 2024. In front of a home crowd, she put down a 50-50 to tame dog to rail transfer sequence that set the internet absolutely ablaze. Then at the X Games Aspen in January, she took home the bronze medal in Knuckle Huck.

Perlmutter qualified for the 2024 Uninvited Invitational via the wild card entry. She rode her way to third place and took home the Subaru Rookie Award worth $1,500 and a $500 ‘Standout Performance’ award. She went on to win Red Bull Heavy Metal Boston in 2025 as a 15-year-old, and then she won the 2025 Uninvited Invitational. In January, she sloth-rolled and backflipped her way into X Games Knuckle Huck gold.

Meanwhile for the men, there's an American that finished qualifications right around the top, but it wasn't the veteran Gerard. Ollie Martin, a 17-year-old from Colorado, heads into qualification in the sixth spot. That's four above fellow first-time Olympian Jake Canter and five above Gerard. Martin also finished Big Air in fourth place, just off the podium, with a broken arm.

Here's the complete start list for the men.

1. Dane Menzies - New Zealand
2. Marcus Kleveland - Norway
3. Mark McMorris - Canada
4. Ryoma Kimata - Japan
5. Cam Spalding - Canada
6. Ollie Martin - USA
7. Romain Allemond - France
8. Yiming Su - China
9. Taiga Hasegawa - Japan
10. Jake Canter - USA
11. Red Gerard - USA
12. Mons Roisland - Norway

Here's the start list for the women:

1. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
2. Kokomo Murase - Japan
3. Seungeun Yu - Korea
4. Reira Iwabuchi - Japan
5. Anna Gasser - Austria
6. Ally Hickman - Australia
7. Mari Fukada - Japan
8. Annika Morgan - Germany
9. Laurie Blouin - Canada
10. Lily Dhawornvej - USA
11. Jess Perlmutter - USA
12. Juliette Pelchat - Canada

Women's Slopestyle finals go down at 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on February 16, 2026.